Learning Analytics

An area which has gained popularity in recent years in the education sector is learning analytics. Learning analytics can be understood as the collection, measurement and reporting of learners data and of their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs. For sure, an important factor leading to […]

Activity 2.5: Reflecting on the research methods

This is my take on activity 2.5; 1. In the discussion of task A11 (pp. 279–81) the account of the students’ utterances is plausible, but why is transcript data to be preferred to the video data for such a visual task? Probably at time of writing this paper, transcript data could be analysed much easily […]

Activity 2.4 Reflecting on the paper

Questions: What research questions are being addressed? A study of primary school children’s talk and collaborative activity while working at the computer. This research investigates whether the quality of talk is related to their ability in problem solving. Another issue which seems to be studied here is whether the use of computer based methods […]